Online Lessons

Online Lessons

I’ve offered online lessons to students around the world for over a year now, and I’ve seen amazing progress and enjoyment from my clients. I’ve had the pleasure of teaching people from rural parts of Alaska, the lower 48s, and even Dublin, Ireland. Online lessons are available to anyone, anywhere, and a great option for those who can’t make it to the studio in person. The only requirements are a reliable internet connection, your instrument, and a video chat software such as Skype or Zoom.

Here’s an excerpt from an article that featured my studio and describes my strategies for online lessons. This article was written at the beginning of the pandemic. I now offer lessons in person as well:

“Forest Wilson is a private lesson instructor in Anchorage, Alaska. He normally teaches out of an in-person studio, which has since moved online. He was kind enough to tell us about how he’s been conducting his remote lessons and using Soundslice in the process.

‘I teach about 30-40 lessons a week from my own independent studio, and during the pandemic, I’ve had to teach all of my lessons online via Zoom or Skype. Soundslice has been great as I can pull up assignments on a shared screen during these socially distanced times. Even some of my less tech-savvy students have found it easy to learn from, and of course young kids love it because it’s almost a way to gamify their assignments.’

‘I’ve only been using Soundslice for a couple of weeks…but I’ve already gotten great feedback from students. The tablature functions are very nuanced, so I’m able to convey all the little slurs and intricacies of a piece to a student. When you couple that with a loopable, video performance with adjustable tempo, students have everything at their disposal to really master songs…maybe even more so than before.’

“Here’s an example of the kinds of slices Forest has been creating for his students to study remotely. Since he was so kind with his words about us, we won’t hesitate to add a personal note that we are really impressed by his playing! :)“

- Soundslice 2020